Coming Home to Detroit

Torn on whether to rejoice over "good press" for Detroit in Saturday's New York Times by op-ed contributor Toby Barlow -- or to roll my eyes at another story about Slows Bar BQ. Any news is good news? Read it here.

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Ron and Patty (Cooley) looked around and did the math. Florida's economy seemed to be declining even more steeply than the Motor City's. In Detroit, they had roots, their sons had moved into the city and started a barbecue restaurant, grandchildren had arrived. So, weighing their options, they came back. They moved into a downtown loft, just a few blocks from the empty lot where Tiger Stadium once stood.

I first encountered Ron and Patty at an early morning fund-raiser for a neighborhood charity. Talking to them, I found that just like other new arrivals — the artists and recent college graduates coming here from other towns — they spoke of Detroit's potential with an almost exalted optimism. Instead of depressing or slowing them down, the move has been a thrilling one and they shared examples of how exhilarating their life is downtown.

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NICHOLAS FISHER, expert at Stony Brook University in New York who took part in a study which found that bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi were present off the coast of California just five months after the nuclear meltdown.